> Stack Overflow is receiving about 3,800 questions a month, which is what it was getting in 2008, before it had finished being launched.

Interesting, is SO getting traffic again? I thought it wasn't doing well? Or have they adapted?

> The programming book was, when you look at it squarely, always a slightly absurd object. Printed text on bound paper, describing software that lived on screens, which the reader had to retype, by hand, into a screen of their own.

The point of programming books was never "give a man a fish" but "teach a man to fish." If you were not hands on, experimenting, and instead copy-pasting you likely didn't get anything out of the book anyway.